Trousers band and fastener.



A. N. GREFIG. TROUSERS BAND AND.F A$TENER. APPLICATION FILED IAN-26.11915. nzugweo MAR. 21. 1911.

Patented July 10, 1917.,

ANTHONY N. GREFIG, OF HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

TROUSERS BAND AND FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 26, 1915, Serial No. 4,421. Renewed. March 21, 1917. Serial No. 156,461.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, ANTHONY N. GREFIG, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hamilton, in the county of VVentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trousers Bands and Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in buckles for boys bloomer trousers, and consists of a buckle or plate, of suitable outer contour and design, having one central vertical bar and vertical oblong openings therethrough on each side of the bar, and a hook on one edge of the buckle and terminating on the inner, or leg side thereof, and adapted to hook in one of a plurality of eyelets, in the opposite end part of the band.

The strapband of the trousers-leg extends through the vertical openings of the buckle, and an elastic strap is looped through one said opening of the buckle, and the ends of the strap are sewn to the leg band of the trousers, and on the inner side thereof.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a buckle which may be permanently adjusted to fit different sizes of boys legs, second, to allow sufficient freedom without unnecessary binding, and may be conveniently replaced at any time, third, to have the device appear as an ordinary buckle on boys bloomer trousers; fourth, to provide a buckle that is adaptable to use the same cloth band as trousers are made of; fifth, to provide a buckle without any tongue, prong or other pointed part, or parts, of any kind, thereby protecting the hand and also cloth band from possible wear, and sixth, to provide a fabric band and buckle and means attached thereto to allow a certain amount of resiliency to the leg band of boys knee trousers.

I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the lower leg part of a boys bloomer trousers, showing the buckle in position.

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the buckle, the trousers leg band therethrough and broken in the rear, the elastic loop strap, and the opposite end part of the band attached to the hook of the buckle.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged the buckle,

front I elevation of Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a plan of the buckle having its inner face concave, and its outer face convex.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several Views.

In the drawing the lower portion of the bloomer fabric trousers referred to, is indicated by A, and B has the cloth or fabric band around the bottom of the trousers, the parts A, and B, are not new. C, is the buckle or plate, which is provided with a hook 2, on one edge thereof, and which extends a distance over the rear or reverse side of the buckle as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing.

The buckle has two similar vertical oblong openings 5, therethrough, thereby forming a central vertical bar 6.

8, is the elastic stra looped through an opening 5, in the buckle, and the opposite ends of said strap are sewn to the nner side of the band B.

In practice, the band B, is passed through an opening 5, and over the inner side of the bar 6, thence through the opposite opening 5, nearest to the hook 2, this end part of the band is pointed to facilitate its entrance through said openings, the band is here held by the buckle, and the elastic strap affords certain resiliency to the band, and tends to draw in a slight manner, more or less, the band to the buckle and to allow the band to slightly stretch and to assume normal position.

The opposite end portion of the band B, is on the inner side of the buckle and extends as far as the line a which is the partially slit plaiting of the pants.

The end portion of the band B, in rear of the buckle has a plurality of suitable eyelets 10, in horizontal alinement one with the other, and are adapted to receive the hook 2, said eyelets allow for the widening or the contracting of the band B, of the trousers legs.

In order to remove the trousers, it is necessary to merely unhook the hook 2, from the band B.

The buckle may be used when necessary to extend and to contract the band, and also to allow more or less tension and re siliency to the elastic strap 8, thereby producing more or less resiliency to the band B. The buckle may be made more or less concave on its inner side and convex on its Patented July 10, 1917.

made from the ame materi l a the tro11-' sers, and forming a part thereof, of a prongless buckle slidable on one end part of the o ers band and pro i ed ith an integral hook, an elastic band attached one end to the buckle and the opposite end to an inner portion of the trousers band, the op- 15 posite end part of the trousers band being provided With a plurality of eyelets for the reception of said hook.

Hamilton, Ontario, January 20th 1915.

ANTHONY N. GREFIG.

Signed in the presence of- G120. L. Goonnow, AMY Hoonmsss.

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